Kent and Dollar Farm massacres

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Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
Location	Kent and Dollar Farms, Vavunia, Sri Lanka
Date	November 30, 1984
Attack type	Massacre
Deaths	62 killed
Perpetrator(s)	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Sri Lankan Conflict
Background
Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka
Origins of the Civil War
Origins of the Civil War Black July • Riots and pogroms Human rights • Allegations of state terror Tamil militant groups
LTTE
LTTE • Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna
Current major figures
Mahinda Rajapaksa Velupillai Prabhakaran Karuna Amman Gotabaya Rajapaksa Sarath Fonseka
Indian Involvement
Operation Poomalai Indo-Sri Lanka Accord Indian Peace Keeping Force Rajiv Gandhi • RAW
See also
Military of Sri Lanka TMVP • EPDP Notable assassinations • Child soldiers This box: view • talk • edit

The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres was one of the earliest massacres of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War. The massacres took place on November 30, 1984, in two tiny farming villages in the district of Mullaitivu in north-eastern Sri Lanka.

1 Number of casualties
2 Related incidents
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading

[edit] Number of casualties

At Dollar farm, 33 Sinhalese were murdered and several others were injured in the shooting carried out by the cadres of LTTE. On the same day at Kent farm, another 29 Sinhalese civilians were massacred, thus increasing the total death toll to 62. Among the civilian casualties were men, women and children. The LTTE operatives used submachine guns, automatic rifles and hand grenades to kill civilians. Survivors also reported that LTTE cadres had killed children by bashing their heads against walls.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Related incidents

Bodies of Sinhalese children who were killed by LTTE

Some of the related LTTE attacks on civilians between 1984 and 2006 include the

Kebithigollewa massacre - 62 Sinhalese civilians died
Gonagala massacre - 54 Sinhalese civilians died
October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka Massacres - 120 Sinhalese civilians died
Kallarawa massacre - 42 Sinhalese civilians died
Dehiwala train bombing - 56 Sinhalese civilians died
Palliyagodella massacre - 166 Muslim Civilians died
Central Bank Bombing - 102 civilians died
Anuradhapura massacre - 146 Sinhalese civilians died

[edit] See also

Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE

[edit] References

Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. ISBN 955-8093-00-9
Gunaratna, Rohan. (October 1, 1987). War and Peace in Sri Lanka: With a Post-Accord Report From Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Institute of Fundamental Studies. ISBN 955-8093-00-9
Gunasekara, S.L. (November 04, 2003). The Wages of Sin, ISBN 955-8552-01-1
UTHR (15 September 1993) FROM MANAL AARU TO WELI OYA AND THE SPIRIT OF JULY 1983 SPECIAL REPORT 5.
T. Sabaratnam Pirapaharan, Chapter 40 Operation Green Arrow. Ilankai Tamil Sangam